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We help you
achieve
true and improved
sustainability
results

Our Approach

We believe that data helps solve many sustainability problems. We help two types of stakeholders:

  • companies that invest in the sustainability of their supply chain
  • investors seeking to make a positive impact.

The Problem
for companies

Lots of activity

From cocoa to mining, cotton to banking, shipping to computing: across all industries companies are investing in the sustainability of their supply chains for the planet, for people and for communities.

But does it work?

Many companies struggle to demonstrate the impact of their sustainability investments. This starts with credible data. You have spent the money, but did your sustainability initiative reach its goals? Are people better off? Is production more environmentally sustainable? To what extent have working conditions improved? Too often there are no answers.

Solution

We work with people in local communities: the cocoa farmers you try to lift out of poverty; the residents of the rural mining village where you are constructing a road.

Our technology empowers them to collect data and to take ownership of solutions to improve their lives. The people at the base of your supply chain deliver the data you need because it works for them.

It’s good for them and it’s good for you.

The Problem
for investors

Poor reporting

More and more companies report sustainability numbers but are they making a difference? They may have spent x amount of money or trained people for y hours, but what impact did that have? What is really behind the numbers?

Difficult to compare

It’s hard to compare different companies, especially when absolute numbers will obviously be higher for larger companies than smaller ones. This leaves investors in the dark when trying to compare apples to apples.

Solution

Our solution: verifiable, comparable and industry-specific outcome data, in real-time.

We provide dashboards that allow investors to compare apples to apples on Environmental, Social and Governance outcomes, such as:

  • Greenhouse gas emissions per tonne of product
  • Resolution rate of conflicts with the local community
  • Dozens more, tailored by sector

Graphs for illustrative purposes only. Based on real but incomplete data.

Scorecards

We have analysed sustainability and annual reports in key industries. We have found that they do not report enough on the outcomes of sustainability efforts. Our aim is to help companies be strategic and impactful in their reporting on sustainability.

You can download our free reports:

Team

Fredrik Galtung

Chief Executive

Edwin Bos

Chief Product Officer

  • Chief Innovation Officer at Reevoo
  • PhD in human-computer interaction, postdoc Stanford
  • Worked at Apple and Yahoo, Reevoo
  • Wikipedia contributor

Christian Benigni

Chief of Financial Products

  • Co-founder GFP Juniper
  • Co-founder First Avenue Partners
  • Created the largest hedge fund franchise at the time in German-speaking Europe
  • Expert in creation, structuring and placement of financial products

Press

Quote from our CEO Fredrik Galtung in The Guardian’s long read "Is fair trade finished?"

“If Fairtrade producers could show that their farmers were 10 or 20 years younger on average ... that would be a massive advantage. But we’re unable to see all this.”

In a podcast with Break the Chain, Fredrik spoke about inputs and outputs versus outcomes and impact.

Fredrik was interviewed by The New Ism, talking about how bottom-up measurement and empowerment is key in sustainability.

Quote from Mining Weekly on TrueFootprint’s mining industry Scorecard:

“governments, investors and customers have no way at present of assessing the effectiveness of key business sustainability investments, which means that some companies are not getting credit for the work they are doing and the social and economic value they create.”

Contact

Inquiries

For any inquiries, questions or commendations, please email us at info@truefootprint.com.

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